Saturday, April 23, 2011

The FInES cluster represents the Enterprise Interoperability and Collaboration Research Domain in Europe, and is composed of FP6 and FP7 funded projects, as well as experts and stakeholders from all over Europe, working in the areas of Enterprise Software, Enterprise Interoperability and Collaboration applicable to enterprises. Almost 30 projects have been running in this area, under FP6, FP7 and CIP programmes.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

An Infrastructure for Open, Linked Governmental Data Provision towards Research Communities and Citizens

A project under the European Commission eInfrastructure programme, to begin in Summer 2011.

Information and Communication Technologies have an unprecedented potential to improve the responsiveness of governments to the needs of citizens and have long been recognized as a key strategic tool to enable reforms in the public sector. During the last years, this potential of ICT has started to be dealt with in a multi-disciplinary way, giving birth to new research communities dealing with governance and policy modelling, modelling and simulation of complex systems, public administration information systems, open governance and social media. However, this potential is to this day non-systematically exploited, as there are significant barriers that hinder the effective exploration, management and distribution of the vast amounts of available public sector data towards the research communities.

The main goal of ENGAGE project is the deployment and use of an advanced service infrastructure, incorporating distributed and diverse public sector information resources as well as data curation, semantic annotation and visualisation tools, capable of supporting scientific collaboration and governance-related research from multi-disciplinary scientific communities, while also empowering the deployment of open governmental data towards citizens.

The ENGAGE consortium comprises of 9 partners from Belgium, Germany, Greece, Israel, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, with an excellent track record both in the eInfrastructures and the Governance domain (NTUA, FOKUS, STFC, Uni. Aegean, TU DELFT) including world-leaders in cloud infrastructures (IBM, Microsoft and INTRASOFT International) and a large network of scientific data diffusion (EUROCris).

Following on Open Data initiatives throughout Europe, ENGAGE has established links with numerous National and International public sector organisations, research communities, open data experts and standardisation fora. The project is supported by the Greek NREN and NGI node GRNET, providing the infrastructure for service provision.

Monday, April 11, 2011

The 3rd academic symposium of the University of Aegean / Information and Communication Systems Engineering Department was held in Karlovassi, Samos, on 8th & 9th April 2011. Attended by more than 200 participants, the symposium featured invited talks and presentations by Government and Private Sector market representatives, including:

Friday, April 1, 2011

The European Commission Future Internet Enterprise Systems (FInES) cluster meeting was held in Brussels, on April 1, 2011. Attended by more than 30 international invited experts, the cluster meeting focused at FP7 and FP8 orientations for research on Future Internet for industries and SME's.

The agenda of the FInES cluster meeting was as following:

Time

Topic

Presenter

09:30-10:00

Registration

10:00-10:15

Introduction,FInESClusterState Of Play, FInES Position Paper on FP8 Orientations Dissemination

Cristina Martinez (EC)

10:15-10:30

FIA activities

Man-Sze Li (IC Focus)

10:30-10:45

What’s new from ENSEMBLE

Yannis Charalabidis (NTUA)

10:45-11:00

Introduction to SPRINT: Software Platform for Integration of Engineering and Things

Andreas Keis (EADS)

11:00-11:10

Coffee Break

11:10-12:10

FInES Task Forces Progress Report

Fenareti Lampathaki (NTUA)

·Standardisation

Guy Doumeingts

(INTEROP VLab)

·FInES Research Roadmap Task Force

Michele Missikoff (CNR-IASI)

·FInES Research Exploitation and Impact Creation

Anton Theuma

(Paragon Europe)

·Manufacture and Industry

Jesper Thestrup (In-Jet ApS)

12.10-12:25

FIA architecture developments

Isidro Laso (EC)

12:25-12:55

Proposal for Task Force on FInES architectural design principles

Man-Sze Li (IC Focus)

12:55-13:55

Lunch

13:55-14:10

The PARADISO 2 project: state of play (tbc)

Fabrizio Sestini (EC)

14:10-14:35

An industrial perspective of FP8 priorities: ATOS

Nuria De-Lama Sanchez (ATOS)

14:35-15:05

ActionPlanT: A Road-Mapping exercise for ICT for Future Manufacturing.

·Introduction to the project, its concepts, progress and further activities

·Discussions

Klaus-Dieter Platte

(Platte Consult)

15:05-15:20

A research viewpoint: Smart Society and FInES

John Sutcliffe-Braithwaite

(Metaloger Technologies)

15:20-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-16:45

Contribution to FISA, new orientations towards FP8 from the Position Paper